17333. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 5 Cubes of Butter.    Consent decree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.    Product  released   under   bond.
(F. & D. No. 24796.    I. S. No. 022749.    S. No. 3006.)
On March 14, 1930, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 5 cubes of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped by Swift & 
Co., from Twin Falls, Idaho, March 7, 1930, and transported from the State of 
Idaho into the State of California, and charging adulteration in violation of the 
food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a product 
containing less than 80 per cent of milk fat had been substituted for butter, 
which the said article purported to be.
On March 25, 1930, Swift & Co., San Francisco, Calif., claimant having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a 
decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon 
payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $250, conditioned 
in part that it be made to conform with the Federal food and drugs act, under 
the supervision of this department.
AETHtJE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.